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The journey of this blog — and that of mine with the ONE simulator — started in 2011. Back in those days, old-timers would recall, there were not much resources available on the ONE simulator. After spending some time with it, I was finally able to gain some understanding about its functionality and work flow. I realized that a short how-to document might benefit others.

What started as a humble effort to provide a quick tutorial on the ONE simulator soon became a popular resource in the community over the years. I'm thankful to all the users of the ONE mailing list who continuously kept me motivated to enrich this blog.

I took this opportunity to prepare an infographic on the usage of the DTN blog based on the statistics provided by Blogger. It has not been possible to include all statistics in the infographic. A few interesting observations are noted below.

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